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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #15 on: 1 May 2006, 01:58 »
I say ubuntu CDs, it's free to just order an assload of them off of the shipit system https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ , you'll wanna do it 2 months in advance tho, since they take for-fuckin'-ever to get shipped, but you would get nice, profesional looking discs in little cardboard sleves that have the actual install CD and the live CD, the live one has things like FF and OO.o for windows in there if they pop it in.

I ordered an assload of them once and placed them in the bestbuys and circuit city stores. They should come with a little display box thats says free take me.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #16 on: 1 May 2006, 02:13 »
It could be like Software Freedom Day, except nothing to do with software freedom.

We could get sponsers and stuff (like the SFD people have).

We gotta get a little up-to-date article to print about MS, and give that away too.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #17 on: 1 May 2006, 20:42 »
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I say ubuntu CDs, it's free to just order an assload of them off of the shipit system https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ , you'll wanna do it 2 months in advance tho, since they take for-fuckin'-ever to get shipped, but you would get nice, profesional looking discs in little cardboard sleves that have the actual install CD and the live CD, the live one has things like FF and OO.o for windows in there if they pop it in.

I ordered an assload of them once and placed them in the bestbuys and circuit city stores. They should come with a little display box thats says free take me.


They'll probably freak out if they see a bunch of us ordering thousands of CDs all at once.

I'd probably have to order three months in advance anyway, since they're so fucking slow.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #18 on: 1 May 2006, 21:09 »
SuSE 9.1 was my favortie distro for a while, then I moved to Fedora and liked that, now im on SuSE 10.0. Id say SuSE has an easier way to admininstrate things the ubuntu, plus I know alot of people who would like SuSE's graphical installer over Ubuntus, but SuSE 10.0 is 5 disks :rolleyes:
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #19 on: 1 May 2006, 23:49 »
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SuSE 9.1 was my favortie distro for a while, then I moved to Fedora and liked that, now im on SuSE 10.0. Id say SuSE has an easier way to admininstrate things the ubuntu, plus I know alot of people who would like SuSE's graphical installer over Ubuntus, but SuSE 10.0 is 5 disks :rolleyes:
Surely most of them are unrequired package CDs?
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #20 on: 1 May 2006, 23:56 »
Either that or it might've even beaten the record for the most bloated OS ever.

I agree about Ubuntu, it isn't an easy to use OS, oh sorry it's easy to use but administrating it does take some getting used to - I have a fair way to go on that part.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #21 on: 2 May 2006, 00:05 »
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Either that or it might've even beaten the record for the most bloated OS ever.
Mac OS X Tiger is one DVD. Vista will be one DVD.

One DVD ~= 4.7GB.
One CD ~= 700MB.
Four CDs ~= 2.8GB.

2.8GB < 4.7GB =>
Four CDs < One DVD =>
SuSE 10.0 < ('contains less bloat than') Vista,Tiger.

Debian comes in I think 9 CDs, it's not bloated at all.

My only point is that I wouldn't measure OS bloat by the amount of CDs/DVDs you CAN get with it on it (especially when the extra CDs are full of packages for people with slower internet connections, often the case with GNU/Linux distributions).
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #22 on: 2 May 2006, 01:09 »
Tiger doesn't even fill the DVD.  I doubt Vista will either.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #23 on: 2 May 2006, 02:56 »
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Surely most of them are unrequired package CDs?

Yes, the OS actually seems quite nice and smooth with Gnome instead of KDE, KDE made it clunky and slow. Debian has 14 CDs last i checked

EDIT: Heres a screen shot of the admin panel http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a106/amdfan12/Screenshot-1.png
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #24 on: 7 August 2006, 05:11 »
Just ordered ubuntu cds.

Remember, November 20th!
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #25 on: 7 August 2006, 05:14 »
Quote from: Lead Head

EDIT: Heres a screen shot of the admin panel http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a106/amdfan12/Screenshot-1.png

Holy shit, beagle and Xen integrated, I must try SUSE.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #26 on: 7 August 2006, 06:18 »
I missed this thread the first time around because I was overseas without internet - thanks for the bump.

I wonder how many Ubuntu cds I can burn before Vista hits stores?  Probably a damn near infinite number, considering Microsoft's release schedule issues.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #27 on: 7 August 2006, 06:51 »
We need to agree on a date for this.

I say Nov. 20.

If we boycott Vista the day it comes out, how can we criticize it?
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #28 on: 7 August 2006, 06:56 »
When people go to BestBuy to buy the new Windows for $250, they might be awful glad to see somebody handing out something better for free right in front of the store.

And Windows wasn't that bad when it first came out.  I mean, it sucked, but the idea of a gui desktop for PC hardware was a pretty good one.  Maybe the day Windows 94 was supposed to come out would be a better anti-Microsoft holiday.
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Re: Screw Microsoft Day
« Reply #29 on: 7 August 2006, 22:06 »
Sorry I can't do 20th November as I'll be at work and I don't plan to take the day off as holiday - I'm not that sad.
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